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Arvind Krishna
Arvind Krishna is the chairman and chief executive of IBM, roles he has held since 2020 and 2021 respectively. He joined IBM's Watson Research Center in 1990 and spent his career there, leading its cloud and AI businesses and driving the $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat before becoming CEO.
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IBM pauses hiring for roles it expects AI to replace
The estimate covered non-customer-facing roles over five years; IBM later said the actual toll was a couple of hundred HR positions, offset by hiring elsewhere.
Culture & impact · Money & business
IBM stops selling general-purpose facial recognition
Announced during the George Floyd protests; Amazon and Microsoft followed within days with police-sales moratoria.
Government & policy · Culture & impact